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To brace the YARDS
To brace the YARDS, (braffer, Fr.) is to traverse them about the masts, so as to form greater or lesser angles with the ship's length. See BRACE.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 328, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/1527.html